Evening had arrived in Equestria the same time the ponies and Spike had arrived back in Ponyville. They all stopped outside Twilight's house to take a short breather.
"Well, ah think we all deserve a good rest after today," Applejack said, taking off her hat and wiping some perspiration from her brow.
"Yes, quite," Rarity agreed. "Especially Fluttershy, after her incident."
Twilight then felt bad again after hearing those words, hanging her head down with anguish. Applejack then elbowed Rarity in her leg for making Twilight feel bad. Rarity rubbed her leg and looked at Applejack crossly.
Applejack walked over to the dejected Twilight. "Ah'm sorry, Twilight."
"No, it's okay. I deserve to feel bad for what I did to Fluttershy."
"Aww, don't say that. Nopony deserves to feel bad for somethin' they didn't mean tuh do."
"But the fact is that I did do it, and something inside me, for whatever reason, made me want to do it. There's no excuse for that..."
Having originally been pitying Fluttershy, everyone was now feeling pity for Twilight, as she looked to be feeling more hurt emotionally than Fluttershy was physically, and even Fluttershy was included with the grief-giving.
Fluttershy approached Twilight. "Twilight, really, it's okay. You don't have to continue feeling so bad for what happened. I don't like seeing you when you're like this; it makes me feel so sad inside..."
Twilight turned her head up towards Fluttershy, whom was warmheartedly smiling at her. Hard for her to do at first, Twilight smiled back at Fluttershy, feeling better than before, but still not completely forgiving of herself.
Suddenly, Twilight cringed as a sharp pain shot through her skull, equivalent to that of a splitting headache. "No, not again!" she thought to herself as she clasped her head with her hoof. "Why does this continue to happen? Why??" she thought frantically. With all the pain Twilight had just been feeling about Fluttershy's incident, this new pain magnified it tenfold.
Applejack clearly saw Twilight suffering from her ordeal. "Twilight, are you okay? You look downright dreadful to me."
Twilight tried her hardest to withstand the pain so she would appear normal, as she didn't want to worry her friends with her affliction. "Yes, I'm just fine, Applejack," she tried to smile, but made yet another cringe from the pain. This in turn made Applejack look more worried.
"I'm with Applejack," Rainbow Dash acceded. "You seriously don't look okay at all."
"Well, she has had the roughest time out of all of us today," Rarity affirmed. "I'm sure it was extremely difficult for her to handle the kind of magic that cloud threw at her; and the same goes for when she recoiled the cloud's magic back at it."
"Rarity's got a point," Applejack acceded. "Somethin' like that is certain to take a lot out of a pony."
"That's really right!" Pinkie exclaimed. "And what Twilight needs now is something to eat to energize herself back to her normal, Twilight-y self! And what better to use than something filled with sweetness!"
"No, Pinkie; really, it's fine."
"Don't worry, it won't take long! You wait here, and I'll just go to my nearest cupcake stash and—"
"Pinkie, please!!" Twilight shouted irately, making Pinkie Pie stop in her tracks, and also making everyone else look at Twilight in surprise. "I don't need something to eat. All I need is a good night's sleep. That's all. So, I don't want anypony worrying about me anymore, okay??"
The others were all silenced by Twilight's outburst., shocked from the disbelief to hear Twilight talk to them with such animosity, even though it was mild.
"...well, if you say so.." Fluttershy said, sounding quite cheerless.
Twilight looked around at the faces of her friends. Each one of them was feeling as much consternation as the last. The levels of frustration Twilight was feeling were significantly lowered when she saw how she had made her friends feel. "What did I just do?" she thought to herself, not being able to believe she would project such anger at her friends. "How could I do something so mean again? Why does this keep happening??"
Even though Twilight hadn't a clue as to the source of all this bedlam, she refused to let it come between her and her friends. "Hey, you know what would be fun?"
"Oooh! I know! I know!" Pinkie Pie shouted as she raised her hoof and hopped up and down. "Playing ball, making cupcakes, having parties, playing musical instruments, singing, dancing, jumping up and down—mmph!!" Pinkie was suddenly silenced by Rainbow Dash and Rarity, who both slapped their hooves over her mouth.
"...well, actually," Twilight continued. "I was referring to all of us getting together for another outing, since our first one was interrupted by that cloud," Everyone exchanged looks, none feeling too keen on the idea of spending so much time with Twilight after her outburst. "What do you all say?"
"...well, that does sound like it would be nice," Fluttershy said. The others still felt uneasy about Twilight's proposition, but Fluttershy's acceptance made them remember that Twilight was still their friend, and should be treated as such.
"Oh, that's great to hear," Twilight replied, feeling a great deal of relief that somepony had agreed with her. "How about tomorrow?" Everyone agreed, which made Twilight feel even better. "Well then, let us all meet up in front of the library in the morning. I'll be sure to have everything prepared by the time you all arrive," The others agreed with Twilight's plan. Everyone then began saying their goodbyes to one another, all looking forward for their plans of the next day. as they went to each of their respective homes. Twilight and Spike went inside their home as well, although Twilight was still not feeling as upbeat as the others.